Baby Bok gets a Treu call
Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:21
Boom Prinsloo in action during the 2010 Varsity Cup
Four Emerging South African Sevens players, and a member of the SA Under-20 team, have been included in an 18-man Springbok Sevens training group that will assemble in Stellenbosch on Monday.
According to long-time Springbok Sevens coach Paul Treu, the get-together in Stellenbosch will kick-start his pre-season training schedule for the next IRB Sevens World Series and also the Commonwealth Games, which take place in India in September.
Brian Shabangu (Sharks), Jacques Engelbrecht (SWD), Bernardo Botha (Golden Lions) and Siyanda Grey (Eastern Province) were all members of the Emerging SA Sevens team that recently lost in extra-time to hosts Kenya in the final of the Sevens tournament in Nairobi.
And the good performance of Lubabalo Mtembu for the SA U20 team at the recently held IRB Junior World Championships in Argentina has been rewarded by a call-up to the Sevens training group.
Other newcomers to the training group are Boom Prinsloo (Free State Cheetahs and Shimlas), Ikey Tigers Varsity Cup star Mark Esterhuizen and the Blue Bulls' Tom Seabela.
The group will spend most of the next couple of days undergoing medical and fitness tests and then commence with a conditioning programme to get them in shape for on-field training from the start of August.
The Springbok Sevens training squad: Chase Minnaar, Frankie Horne, Chris Dry, Kyle Brown, Neil Powell, Paul Delport, Cecil Africa, Ryno Benjamin, Hoffman Maritz, Renfred Dazel (all SARU contracted), Lubabalo Mtembu, Brian Shabangu (Sharks), Boom Prinsloo (FS Cheetahs), Jacques Engelbrecht (SWD), Bernardo Botha (Golden Lions), Mark Esterhuizen (Ikeys), Siyanda Grey (EP), Tom Seabela (Blue Bulls).
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